Gooch & Housego PLC Result of AGM (6009C)
24 February 2022 - 12:11AM
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Gooch & Housego PLC
23 February 2022
For immediate release 23 February 2022
Gooch & Housego PLC
("G&H" or the "Company")
Result of AGM
Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer
of photonic components & systems, held its Annual General
Meeting earlier today.
For information, the proxy votes received in respect of the
resolutions proposed at the AGM were as follows:
No. Resolution No. of Proxy Votes
FOR AGAINST WITHHELD*
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To receive the Annual
Report and Financial Statements
for the financial year
ended 30 September 2021
together with the Directors'
Report and Auditors' Report
1. thereon 16,391,375 37 1,317
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To receive and approve
the Remuneration Committee
Report set out on pages
65 to 72 (excluding pages
67 and 68) of the Annual
Report and Financial Statements
for the financial year
2. ended 30 September 2021 16,195,799 193,981 2,949
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To declare a final dividend,
as recommended by the
Directors, of 7.7 pence
per ordinary share for
the financial year ended
3 30 September 2021 16,391,575 37 1,117
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To re-elect Gary Bullard
4. as a Director 14,372,738 2,015,874 4,117
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To re-elect Mark Webster
5. as a Director 14,354,523 2,034,089 4,117
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To re-elect Chris Jewell
6. as a Director 16,388,575 37 4,117
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To re-elect Brian Phillipson
7. as a Director 14,817,177 287 1,575,265
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To re-elect Louise Evans
8. as a Director 14,817,127 37 1,575,565
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To elect Jim Haynes as
9. a Director 14,817,127 37 1,575,565
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To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as Auditors to the
10. Company 16,387,767 991 3,971
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To authorise the Directors
to fix the Remuneration
of the Auditors of the
11. Company 16,389,773 747 2,209
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To authorise the Directors'
to allot shares pursuant
to section 551 of the
12. Companies Act 2006 16,388,389 2,131 2,209
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Special resolution to
authorise the Directors'
to allot shares pursuant
13 to section 570 of the
(a) Companies Act 2006 16,387,744 2,776 2,209
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Special Resolution to
13 partially disapply statutory
(b) rights of pre-emption 16,387,744 2,776 2,209
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Special Resolution to
authorise the Company
to purchase its own shares
pursuant to section 701
14 of the Companies Act 2006 13,403,827 989 2,987,913
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* A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the percentages of votes cast for and against a
resolution.
For further information
contact:
Gooch & Housego
Mark Webster / Chris Jewell PLC 01460 256440
Mark Court / Sophie Wills Buchanan 020 7466 5000
Christopher Baird / David
Anderson Investec Bank plc 020 7597 5970
Notes to editors
1. Gooch & Housego is a photonics technology business
headquartered in Ilminster, Somerset, UK with operations in the USA
and Europe. A world leader in its field, the company researches,
designs, engineers and manufactures advanced photonic systems,
components and instrumentation for applications in the Aerospace
& Defence, Industrial, Life Sciences and Scientific Research
sectors. World leading design, development and manufacturing
expertise is offered across a broad range of complementary
technologies.
2. All financial information included in this announcement is
sourced from unaudited management accounts and excludes any
specific items. This announcement contains certain forward-looking
statements that are based on management's current expectations or
beliefs as well as assumptions about future events. These are
subject to risk factors associated with, amongst other things, the
economic and business circumstances occurring from time to time in
the countries and sectors in which G&H operates. It is believed
that the expectations reflected in these statements are reasonable
but they may be affected by a wide range of variables which could
cause actual results, and G&H's plans and objectives, to differ
materially from those currently anticipated or implied in the
forward-looking statements. Investors should not place undue
reliance on any such statements. Nothing in this announcement
should be construed as a profit forecast.
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